"One of the most innovative offensive minds in football"

[LunchTimeBully]

Gus Malzahn.

Like FSU (former LSU OC) and UF (Urban Meyer/Dan Mullen/Steve Addazio) we need to hire an offensive mind. It's the way to go these days. This guy will have head coaching position someday soon.

The Malzahn Efffect Offensive productivity of the college teams for which Gus Malzahn has served as coordinator (NCAA rank in parentheses).                      Year   Team   Record      Total       Rush          Pass

2006 Arkansas 10-4     378.0 (29) 228.5 (4) 149.5 (108)

2007 Tulsa 10-4          543.9 (1) 172.9 (41) 371.0 (3)

2008 Tulsa 11-3          569.9 (1) 268.0 (5)   301.9 (9)

2009 Auburn 4-0         526.3 (3) 261.3 (5)   265.0 (27)

After producing the nation's top-ranked offense at Tulsa in 2007 and 2008, Malzahn has returned to the SEC, where he's engineered another remarkable transformation. Using virtually the same cast of players that slogged through a disastrous 5-7 season last year, Auburn is off to a 4-0 start thanks largely to an offense that has improved from 104th in the country ... to No. 3 (526.3 yards per game).

Full article:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/10/01/malzahn/index.html

Offensive Philosophy

Coach Malzahn is known for his no-huddle offensive philosophy. In January 2003, he published a book and instructional video titled Hurry Up No Huddle — An Offensive Philosophy (ISBN 9781585186549), that became the blueprint for the offensive wave engulfing the state.[15] Several NFL teams adopted some of Malzahn's offensive strategies.[16] Malzahn is perhaps best known for his formation, the "Wildcat", which became famous during his year at the Razorbacks, but is actually a variation on the Single Wing, a play that dates to Pop Warner.

Malzahn has been involved as a guest speaker and instructor at numerous coaching clinics around the nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Malzahn#cite_note-MandelSI-0

Another good one would be Kevin Sumlin.

[MechanicalBull]

Impressive! 16th overall for 09. 8th for teams in a BCS conference. 3rd in the SEC behind Fla and Ala.

Net Total Yards Leaders

RK TEAM YDS YDS/G PASS P YDS/G RUSH R YDS/G PTS PTS/G

1 Houston 7887 563.4 6208 443.4 1815 129.6 591 42.2

2 Nevada 6573 505.6 2196 168.9 4484 344.9 497 38.2

3 Florida 6410 457.9 3453 246.6 3105 221.8 502 35.9

4 Troy 6314 485.7 4506 346.6 1939 149.2 438 33.7

5 Boise State 6303 450.2 3737 266.9 2605 186.1 591 42.2

6 Texas Tech 6120 470.8 5337 410.5 1092 84.0 481 37.0

7 Texas A&M 6055 465.8 3886 298.9 2394 184.2 427 32.8

8 TCU 5937 456.7 2899 223.0 3114 239.5 498 38.3

9 Central Michigan 5924 423.1 3662 261.6 2347 167.6 475 33.9

10 Georgia Tech 5910 422.1 1860 132.9 4136 295.4 473 33.8

RK TEAM YDS YDS/G PASS P YDS/G RUSH R YDS/G PTS PTS/G

11 Texas 5897 421.2 4018 287.0 2066 147.6 550 39.3

12 Idaho 5864 451.1 3873 297.9 2137 164.4 425 32.7

13 Cincinnati 5817 447.5 4112 316.3 1803 138.7 502 38.6

14 Hawaii 5687 437.5 4610 354.6 1306 100.5 296 22.8

15 Alabama 5642 403.0 2743 195.9 3011 215.1 449 32.1

16 Auburn 5613 431.8 3049 234.5 2756 212.0 433 33.3

17 Fresno State 5597 430.5 2705 208.1 2976 228.9 440 33.8

18 Stanford 5559 427.6 2776 213.5 2837 218.2 461 35.5

19 Arkansas 5555 427.3 4010 308.5 1713 131.8 468 36.0

20 Brigham Young 5553 427.2 3799 292.2 1894 145.7 461 35.5

http://espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/team/_/stat/total 

[DontPushMe]

im sold... i hope he gets an interview

[mikebeau]

this would be a homerun.

doubt he is interested though.  I think i heard on the outback bowl telecast that he has passed on interviews for HC positions

[Joe]

He would be a great hire if we could get him.

[Cubanbull]

He would be good but he might be waiting for bigger fish

[Orlando Bull]

I've been bringing this guy up on here for weeks. He would be a solid x's/o's hire. I doubt that he would bring much as far as recruiting, and he has never been in charge of a defense. I would love to bring him in though. I would argue that we have better players on offense than Auburn had this year (maybe not the line). I think it would be important to keep some key members of the current staff, but I really like this guy.

Auburn's offense was completely inept last year, to No. 16 this year. If you watched their game with Bama, he is definitely original.

Hope he gets and interview. I didn't see this mentioned, but I read somewhere that he was a HS coaching legend in Arkansas. This shows that he is pretty good with HS age kids, could help in recruiting, and connection to his players.

[Bull Matrix]

What are Charlie Weis' stats as an OC?

[Joe]

I'm not sure he's ready to move on...but worth a look

[LunchTimeBully]

He's making $350,000 according to his wikipedia page . He would quadruple his salary if we offered him $1.4 million. He's got to at least give us a look, IMO. The only drawback is that he doesn't seem to have any ties to Florida for recruiting...